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Khairat al-Shater, a former deputy leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has been in jail since July 2013 after the army ousted the Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, following mass protests against his rule.

Mursi was propelled into the presidential campaign in 2012 when Khairat al-Shater was disqualified on the grounds of a past criminal conviction.

Abd al-Moneim, who was detained early on Thursday, was banned from travelling abroad five years ago after speaking at a conference in Europe about violence used by security forces on demonstrators protesting against Mursi’s overthrow, her daughter Gihad Badawy said.

No arrest warrant was presented and no reason was given for her arrest, she said.

“We worry about her health. She had a blood clot in her leg ... they wouldn’t let her take her medicine,” Badawy said.

The Brotherhood won Egypt’s first free elections after the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief deposed Mursi, has since overseen a crackdown in which hundreds of Brotherhood supporters, including Mursi and Shater, have been jailed.

Sisi supporters say he is working to keep Egypt stable after years of political and economic turmoil following the 2011 uprising.